The correct answer is A.
Feudalism is a political system which was prevalent in Europe between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. The majority of privileges and rights were offered to the Upper class and level of the society. The King ruled and owned everything and had total control over all. His vassals (knights) were given some small parts of land but in exchange, they had to provide military protection. The serfs were lent land and they had to provide food and services to the upper classes.
<span>Alfred (the Great) was King of Wessex and a Saxon some 150 years before the Norman invasion.</span>
<span>At the beginning of World War I, Russia’s armies performed poorly. In response, Nicholas II appointed himself commander-in-chief, so he could take direct control of the military from Grand Duke Nicholas, against the advice of his ministers. Nicholas II spent much of late 1915 through August 1917 away from Tsarskoe Selo in Saint Petersburg.</span>
1 he was a skillful politician
